Fair warning, this has gone through two sets of Google Translates so some of the detail may have been lost. However, it does appear that if you bought a PlayStation Plus subscription at a discount in Hong Kong then you will need to pay the difference between the price you paid and the full price of the two more expensive tiers.
Update: Sony has backtracked and issued a statement blaming a technical error for overcharging existing subscribers when upgrading.
The news was broken by Mohammed Aigoin from @Jeux_Video_Mag, you might guess from the name that it is a French publication.
BREAKING NEWS : Un mail de #PlayStation Support à Honk Kong confirme que les abonnés ayant souscrit au #PSPlus via une réduction devront la compenser directement à Sony si ils prennent l’abonnement Extra ou Premium/Deluxe #PS4 #PS5 pic.twitter.com/6JoSJh2Dkx
— Mohammed Aigoin (@Mohammed_Aigoin) May 25, 2022
Pushing his Tweets through Google Translate and we get the following:
An email from #PlayStation Support in Hong Kong confirms that subscribers who subscribed to #PSPlus via a discount will have to compensate Sony directly if they take the Extra or Premium/Deluxe subscription #PS4 #PS5
“Since you bought PlayStation Plus at a discounted price, there are two PlayStation Plus subscriptions that are not eligible for further discounts:
1) PlayStation Plus subscription purchased at a discount.
2) PlayStation Plus membership used with redemption code.Therefore, if you need to upgrade to a Tier 2 or Tier 3 Premium subscription, you will need to make up the difference between the previous discounted price and the normal price.”
Sony have not officially announced any restrictions on the PlayStation Plus upgrades as of yet but if they do start asking people to pay extra if they purchased PS Plus at a discount it is going to annoy a lot of people. Many subscribers top up their PlayStation Plus when Sony put the subscription on sale, which they usually do during their Days of Play sale. This year’s sale has just started and unlike previous years, discounts on PlayStation Plus are noticeably absent.
Sony has revealed the classic games catalogue that will be coming to PlayStation Plus Premium and Deluxe plans in the new three-tiered PS Plus subscription service. A mixture of original PlayStation and PSP games will join PS2 Classic Games released for PS4 and (for the Premium plan) PS3 games playable via game streaming. You can read more about the games included by clicking here.Â
Source: Twitter
MrYd
From what I’ve read, it does appear to be the case. And worse.
If you took advantage of the Days of Play sale around this time last year, you could get PS+ for 25% off. So £37.50 instead of £50. If you really took advantage of the offer and stacked up a couple of years, you’d pay £75 instead of £100. And to upgrade to Premium, they seem to want the £50 a year difference between Essential and Premium, which is fair enough. But then they want the discount back, for some stupid reason. And you can only upgrade your entire subscription for however long is left.
So if you had 2 years of PS+ for £75 and want to upgrade, that’s £125 for the upgrade. Some people have stacked up 10 years. So that’d be £625 Sony want all at once.
Sony really need to sort that all out quickly.
Damigos
Check NeoGAF.
It was reverted back, you no longer have to pay the difference